Ladybugs and Dust Bunnies
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This little lady waltzed into my life this weekend. While I was cooking it took up residence on this blue cup. I’ve never seen one of these…have you? It’s an ash grey ladybug, I think. After making it to the top of this cup it walked around and around…and around and around and around…
{“You spin me right round, baby, right round like a record, baby, right round round round…” Name that song and/or band.}
And she kept on goin’, that little bug. I began to wonder if she was a stupid bug or if she just liked circles.
Then I was reminded of my tendencies as of late…to get sidetracked and find myself in my own circles going around and around and around… Anyway, I don’t know if it’s my age, too much on my plate, too little on my plate, lack of an essential vitamin or mineral, my age, the fact that I can’t finish a thought before the phone rings or someone or something interrupts me, or maybe it’s my age.
I’m looking into the vitamin thing ’cause I don’t think it could possibly have anything to do with my age.
Back to the ladybug…
As I said, this is the first ash grey ladybug I’ve ever seen that I can remember. At first I was thinking it was some freak, albino, genetically mutated ladybug. The entomologist that I’m not, I googled it.
My research found that they don’t typically domicile in clean, well kept homes as they feast on mites, dust bunnies and boogers. We don’t have no boogers ’round here – unless you count Jake…
or Sam…
and that Sam’s a wooly booger for sure.
But I did just see one of them ash grey ladybug’s ridin’ down the hall on a dust bunny – yee haw! And out of great concern that they may be endangered, I have decided to hold off any further dusting until I hear otherwise.
I do what I can for the planet.
[The accuracy of these statements has not be evaluated by a team of independent experts, dependent experts, or co-dependent experts and is only from the personal research and observations of one lame housekeeper. Thank you and have a nice day.]
ROFLOL!!
You & I can be on the green team for Easley & Powdersville, maintaining appropriate habitats for ash grey ladybugs! : P
Since you both live in Easley I think I’ll join the team and represent Powdersville… GO TEAM!!! I’ve got some dust bunnies over here just a waitin’ for one of those little ash grey cuties to come out to play. Think I’ll leave ’em alone for a few days and let ’em have some fun.
That is a great picture of that ladybug!!!!!
I am glad to see Sam made it on the site.
LOVED it–I needed a laugh this morning! It’s so messy outside I figured I’d clean but now it just feels more planet friendly to curl up with a book. Thanks!
Your pictures are just gorgeous!
I have never seen a lady bug like that… you have an endangered species.
I love your posts.. you are so witty!
Oh my gosh!!! What great dogs you have!!! I want those doggies!!!
“You Spin Me Round” Dead or Alive. 1985. (I’m obsessed wtih 80’s music.)
Jake is cute. Same is cute.
Thanks for checking out my blog.
Can’t wait to get into yours. Looks like lots of neato stuff.
After being out of town and away from a computer for a week it was refreshing to return to your blog site. What a cute little bug. Yor pictures are outstanding. Hug Sam and Jake for me.
Great image, the bucking bronco of a ladybug saddled up on the dust bunny. Surprised I haven’t seen any around this domicile…
I’m so happy you were on wyff4 this morning…otherwise, I wouldn’t have known about your blog. What beautiful photography and I love your writing style. WOW! I’ve bookmarked so I can come back again and again. Martha
What a great post! Fantastic photos, too. I wanted to reach into the screen and give Jake a big kiss! ps. my new lens should come in the mail tomorrow!!!!!
Just came here from April’s site to see whereabouts in SC you’re from.
Then I spotted the lady bug. They are taking over my laundry room. Maybe they are eating dust mites in there while they wait on the river birch to put on leaves and attract aphids again. They ruined my curtains with their little trails all over everything! Love your site.
OMG..that photo is awesome…LOVE it…going to check my dust bunnies for photo ops now…;-)
I noticed a number of theses same “strange” looking ladybugs on my azaleas one morning last week. There were a few of the regular looking ladybugs, but I had never seen this variety before. I know that ladybuys (regular at least) love to feast on aphids. Those of us that try to grow roses love ladybugs since they eat the pesty little, almost microscopic, aphids. Later that morning I sat down on a chair (near the azaleas) to eat a sandwich. Before I realized it, I was almost covered with little green aphids. But maybe that was good: Could the ash grey ladybugs chased away the aphids from my bushes by their strange appearance and caused the aphids to look for a new home? Encouraged by your reminderance of the ladybugs, I will go outside and investigate the further adventures of the ash grey ladybugs in my yard.
I am from New Brunswick Canada and we always called them potatoe bugs as we saw them often on potatoe plants.
But a quick google shows they just appear to be a different color lady bug.
“You spin me right round, baby, right round like a record, baby, right round round round…” Dead or Alive….I went to their CONCERT!!! 😉
Love the that lady bug. I wish I could get a few to clean my house! 🙂
I have never seen them before, but, Ijust found one in my house yesturday.
That isn’t a ladybug. Ladybugs typically range from orange to red and occasionally a cream color, and they can have varying degrees of spots or none at all, but they all have either a black or black and white head. That is a picture of a garden pest, and I would have squashed it if I were you. It’s a common mistake, as some insects imitate ladybugs to hide from predators. A relative of the cucumber beetle is what you have a picture of, I’m sorry to say.